Tiger Woods will design new par-3 course at Pebble Beach

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Tiger Woods is coming back to Pebble Beach.

No, not to play in the AT&T Pro-Am in February. Woods will redesign Pebble’s par-3 course, the Pebble Beach Company announced Tuesday. Golf.com was first to report the news.

The short layout known as the Peter Hay course (named for Pebble’s longtime head pro), with sweeping views of Carmel Bay and the Pacific Ocean beyond, is used annually as a staging area for the Pro-Am. It also housed infrastructure, including a giant merchandise tent and media center, for the U.S. Open in June.

The renovated par-3 course is expected to reopen in October. Among the wrinkles Woods hopes to add, according to golf.com, is a replica hole of No. 7 at the “real” Pebble Beach, the famous downhill par-3 alongside the water.

“Pebble Beach has always been a special place to me,” Woods said in a news release. “It’s an honor for TGR Design and me to partner with Pebble Beach Company to design a new short course at such an iconic location.”

Woods brings some history at Pebble, of course. He routed the field in the 2000 U.S. Open, winning by 15 shots in golf’s most dominant major championship performance ever. Woods also rallied down the stretch to win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am earlier in 2000. He tied for 21st in this year’s U.S. Open at Pebble.

Ron Kroichick has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1995, when he came from the Sacramento Bee. In spring 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, he has temporarily moved to Metro to cover higher education and general-assignment news. In normal times, Kroichick is The Chronicle’s golf columnist, covering the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and all major championships in Northern California (including the 2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach and 2020 PGA Championship at Harding Park). He also writes features on the Warriors during the NBA season, and on various other topics – ranging from the 49ers/NFL and major-league baseball to college football and basketball – the rest of the year.